Posted on 09/13/2006 12:12:29 PM PDT by irish guard
Initial report of Hekmatyar's capture was a case of mistaken identity
On 9-11, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported “the commander of the Hizb-i-Islami militia in Hafezan in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Gulbuddin Hikmatyar, was arrested after credible intelligence led Afghan and coalition forces to his compound.” An independent intelligence source confirmed the initial report, which led to my post on this matter, however a subsequent identification by fingerprinting indicates the person in question is not Hekmatyar. The capture suspect is a high level commander in Hezb-i-Islami, and is said to be a dead ringer for Hekmatyar.
The misidentification of terrorist commanders is a common occurrence. Most recently, Pakistan commander Matiur Rehman and Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah were reported captured, however it was later discovered they were indeed not in custody. It is believed the Pakistani ISI misled ABC News, while Dadullah's body double was actually Mullah Ibrahim, a Taliban commander in the Kandahar region.
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You marry your first cousins for a thousand generations and Fur Shur everybody ends up looking alike, and they're all just as dumb ~
That's a shame. By all reports Hekmatyar is a man who needs capturing.
I know you intended for this to be funny and I took it that way, but the failure to capture Hekmatyar is a big disapointment in the WOT. He is an ally of OBL and a terrorist who opposes our assistance in Afghanistan.
OK, now they're just making names up.
As Joan Rivers observed, "You never see on of these terrorist's pictures in the paper and wonder to yourself, 'Does he have a brother?'"
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